Katherine Kelly Lang (bornKatherine Kelly Wegeman; July 25, 1961^[1]) is an American actress. She is best known for playingBrooke Logan in theCBS soap operaThe Bold and the Beautiful of theCBS Daytime programming block.

Katherine Kelly Lang
Lang at theMonte-Carlo Television Festival in June 2013
Born	Katherine Kelly Wegeman (1961-07-25)July 25, 1961 (age 64) Hollywood,California, U.S.
Other names	Kelly Lang
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1979–present
Known for	The Bold and the Beautiful asBrooke Logan
Spouses	Skott Snider ​ ​ (m. 1989;div. 1995)​ Alex D'Andrea ​ ​ (m. 1997;div. 2014)​
Children	3
Father	Keith R. Wegeman
Relatives	Alvin Wegeman (uncle)

Lang was born inHollywood,California, and graduated fromBeverly Hills High School. She is the daughter of Olympic ski jumperKeith R. Wegeman, aGerman-American and actress Judith Lang, anAnglo-American and the granddaughter ofOscar-winning cinematographerCharles Lang.^[2]

Lang made her acting debut in the filmSkatetown, U.S.A. (1979), alongsideScott Baio,Maureen McCormick, andPatrick Swayze. That was followed by guest roles in numerous television series such asThe Powers of Matthew Star,Masquerade,Riptide,Magnum, P.I.,Happy Days,The Fall Guy and1st & Ten. Lang starred in the 1996 television filmSubliminal Seduction. In 1985, she appeared in fourmusic videos:Alabama's "There's No Way" (where she played the love interest of Alabama lead singer Randy Owen)The Beach Boys' "Getcha Back" and its sequel "It's Gettin' Late" and The Medflys' "Compulsive" for a band from her childhood hometown, Carmel CA.^{[citation needed]}

In 1987, Lang was offered the role of blue-collarBrooke Logan on theCBS soap operaThe Bold and the Beautiful for theCBS Daytime programming block, and has been an integral part of the program ever since. Her love affair withRidge Forrester (originally played byRonn Moss, and since 2013 byThorsten Kaye) has been a keystory arc for 35 years, and a love triangle among Brooke, Ridge andTaylor (Originally played byHunter Tylo and laterKrista Allen andRebecca Budig) stretched over more than thirty years starting with Taylor's entrance to the show in 1990. The show's 5,000th episode included only the four core characters: Brooke, Ridge, Stephanie and Eric.^[3] As of February 2015, Lang is one of only two actors to be onThe Bold and the Beautiful throughout the series. The other isJohn McCook, who portraysEric Forrester.^[4]

In 1999, she appeared as Brooke inThe Young and the Restless, interacting withEric Braeden (Victor),Peter Bergman (Jack), andEileen Davidson (Ashley). Lang previously appeared onThe Young and the Restless as Gretchen in 1981, and returned to the soap, for a brief stint, in July 2007. Her work as Brooke has been recognized with sevenSoap Opera Digest Award nominations, beginning in 1991 and most recently in 2005.

In 2016, Lang made a special guest appearance as herself in the Australian soap operaNeighbours on10 Peach.^[5] In January 2019, she returned to Australian television as a contestant onI'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! forseason 5. In October 2019 she made a guest appearance on the Greek soap opera "8 lexeis" for SKAI TV. She played Grace Heart, a reporter who traveled from New York, to Corfu, Greece, only that was not her true identity!

Lang has been married twice. She is the mother of three children from her two marriages: her two sons Jeremy Skott Snider (born 1990), Julian Lang Snider (born 1992) from her then husband Skott Snider, and her daughter Zoe Katrina D'Andrea (born 1997) from her then husband Alex D'Andrea, and has a stepdaughter, Danyelle D'Andrea (born 1991).^[6]

On November 11, 2012, it was announced that Lang had filed for divorce, after 15 years of marriage citing "irreconcilable differences".^[7]

In May 2018, she became a grandmother with the birth of her granddaughter, Zuma, via her daughter Zoe.^[8]

• Katherine Kelly Lang atIMDb